Electra Glide Ultra Limited Higher speed limits can make a car accident more likely to result in injury or death. Crashing at 70 MPH could be fatal when the exact same crash at 25 MPH would have been survived by all parties.

Parents entrust school bus drivers with their children's lives. Every single week day during the school year, millions of kids pile onto buses to ride to school and/or back home again. With this much at stake, are bus drivers held to a higher standard?

The cause of many injuries is often some failure of observation or risk prevention. A worker failed to see a slick spot on a tile floor where water had spilled, for example, or an employer failed to notice damage to a machine that needed to be fixed before the machine was used.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of pedestrian deaths in 2015 increased to 5,375. On average, a pedestrian is killed every two hours in motor vehicle crashes. Are the vehicle drivers, though, always responsible for pedestrian fatalities?

To a large degree, the goal of creating driverless cars is to avoid accidents. The vast majority of crashes stem from human error. If that can be eliminated, crash totals would theoretically fall, drastically reducing injuries and fatalities.